importance of no harm to participants as an ethical issue. Give examples to illustrate the difficulties with this issue. Examples from the book that had difficulties with ethics include the Milgram experiment‚ the Stanford Prison experiment‚ and the syphilis experiment. These experiments were done in the name of science but had a lasting impact on the participants. In the listed examples‚ the institutions that sponsored these experiments were not looking to harm the participants‚ they were simply
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Plus‚ when donors give blood they receive a cholesterol test and a mini-physical that can catch certain illnesses in the early stages. Florida’s Blood Centers tests blood from donors for numerous diseases including HIV 1 and 2‚ West Nile Virus‚ Syphilis‚
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initiated when Paul EHRLICH first coined the term ‘magic bullet’‚ or chemotherapy‚ to designate the use of antimicrobial compounds to treat microbial infections. In 1910‚ EHRLICH discovered the first antibiotic drug‚ Salvarsan‚ which was used against syphilis. EHRLICH was followed by Alexander FLEMING‚ who discovered penicillin by accident in 1928. Then‚ in the 1935‚ Gerhard DOMAGK discovered the sulfa drugs‚ thereby paving the way to the discovery of the anti-TB drug Isoniazid. Then‚ in 1939‚ René
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European exploration and claiming of the continents bred a desire to colonize. This way of life created a significant demand for labor. Europeans sought to exploit and solicit cheap labor in inconceivable amounts. This mass trade of humans‚ known as the Atlantic Slave Trade‚ spanned multiple continents and resulted in Africans being forcibly removed from their homeland and to be sold and traded as property. This is known as the most voluminous trade of humans in history‚ and preceded centuries worth
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stressful when you have your professor watching you while you are interacting and providing care to the patient. I learned that in the state of Virginia‚ if either partner has STIs‚ partner notification is upto the patient. However‚ chlamydia‚ gonorrhea‚ syphilis‚ chancroid‚ HIV‚ AIDs are reportable disease in every state. Also‚ expedited partner therapy varies per state. Also‚ if we have patient diagnosed with gonorrhea infection‚ selection of antibiotics for gonorrhea must also include possible coinfection
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introduced new diseases such as tuberculosis‚ measles‚ cholera‚ typhus‚ and smallpox. Of all the exchanges between the Native Americans and Europeans‚ disease had the most impact. Native Americans also gave the Europeans diseases as well such as Syphilis. The European explorers then brought that disease back to Europe killing many Europeans in the process. The Americans attracted more disease than the Europeans because a majority of the diseases that the Europeans brought over they were
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In the medical community‚ there is a history of taking advantage of minorities and then doing extremely unethical things. For example‚ the Tuskegee syphilis experiment‚ which involved doctors purposely withholding medical treatment for scientific curiosity (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services ‚ 2017). It is stories like these that intensifies the importance of expanding how we see others and their
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Nuremberg War Crimes Trial following World War II brought to public view the ways German scientists had used captive human subjects as subjects in oftentimes gruesome experiments. In the 1950s and 1960s‚ the Tuskegee Syphilis Study involved the withholding of known effective treatment for syphilis from African-American participants who were infected. Events like these forced the reexamination of ethical standards and the gradual development of a consensus that potential human subjects needed to be protected
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partners per year. The average heterosexual has eight partners in a lifetime. Homosexuals account for 3-4% of all gonorrhea cases‚ 60% of all syphilis cases‚ and 17% of all hospital admissions (other than for STDs) in the United States. They make up only 1-2% of the population. Homosexuals live unhealthy lifestyles‚ and have historically accounted for the bulk of syphilis‚ gonorrhea‚ Hepatitis B‚ the “gay bowel syndrome”‚ tuberculosis and cytomegalovirus. Homosexuals questioned in one study reports that
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plagues of Exodus‚ plus one more for good measure. The dramatized plagues include bread-moldderived ergot from the rye fungus‚ which causes massive itching‚ cramps‚ spasms‚ and gangrene--as well as later centuries’ smallpox‚ leprosy‚ Black Plague‚ syphilis‚ dysentery‚ TB‚ typhus‚ cholera‚ and AIDS‚ not to mention Ebola‚ Lyme‚ and more. World-class but crazy toxicologist Theodore ``Teddy’’ Graham Kameron‚ abused as a child by his Bible-quoting mother and now led by a toxic Voice that he assumes must
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